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A PATRIOTIC APPEAL TO EVERY 
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John T. IVJulugan 



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PREFACE ^/\^ 

The Government of the United States was founded 
''to establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, pro- 
vide for a common defense, promote the general wel- 
fare and secure the blessings of liberty." 

The first National Assembly of France declared 
that "ignorance, neglect or contempt of human rights 
are the sole causes of public misfortune and corruptions 
of Government." 

We are engaged in a world war. Mankind is 
facing a momentous crisis. America's heart and hopes 
are in France. 

Our firesides glow with mingled reflections of 
tender memories and glorious achievement. Our fam- 
ily altars are lit with the prayers of trusting mothers, 
anxious wives and wondering children. The blood, the 
fortunes and the energies of a mighty peace loving and 
God fearing people are pledged to the success of the 
cause "over there." All to uphold the glory of God and 
the rights of man. 

With a prayerful and patriotic desire to engrave 
upon the heart of every American a full conception and 
realization of the sacred duty imposed upon all as citi- 
zens of the greatest of all Republics, I submit this ef- 
fort to the conscientious consideration of my country- 
men. 

JOHN T. MULLIGAN. 
Los Angeles, Cal. 
September, 1918. €)ci.A50;J717 

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CHAPTER I. 

Draft President Wilson. 

DRAFT PRESIDENT WILSON is not an or- 
iginal thought of the author. It is the call of destiny, 
the cry of humanity and the demand of duty. It is the 
manifested inspiration born in the hearts of millions of 
souls, glorified by the reward wrapped in the cause 
"over there." 

It is the irresistible demand of that grand spirit 
sweeping the Universe like a mighty tidal wave to 
make this a safer, better and purer world in which to 
live. 

It is the unconquerable movement nursed and fed 
by a thousand generations of pain, suffering, sacrifice 
and death, tested by ages of fire and blood for a higher 
and better social order and a more equal and just eco- 
nomic and industrial freedom. 

It is the first lispings of the new born world force 
called Americanism, and it is the beckon of a hopeful 
posterity. 

The time for reason is here. The demand of the 
age looks us squarely in the face and searches our in- 
nermost soul. Let us rise to the importance of the situa- 
tion. Let us smother our prejudices. Let us set the 
sapping politician aside. Let the weakling and slackei 
go his way. Let us forget for the moment our personal 
and selfish interests. Let us, just for the day, live for 
the glory of God, the good of humanity and the up- 
building of the race. Let us lift the curtain of human 
activities and calmly look upon the great battlefield of 
life. 

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The world is literally soaked in human blood. 
Hatred is being bred, over and over, in the hearts of 
men. Kill, kill, kill thy brother is the battle cry. The 
horror of the sickening nightmare can never be told or 
understood. 

In Europe the crimson stained soil has been sanc- 
tified by a baptism of human blood. The temples of 
holy worship and sanctuaries of refuge have been dese- 
crated and laid waste. The fertile fields have been de- 
vastated. The feasts have been turned into mourning. 
Ruin and destruction shock and sicken the soul. Wild, 
savage and blood curdling crimes are rewarded by the 
wicked Moloch of the age. "Over there" the flower of 
a peace loving and God fearing people are fighting, 
fighting, fighting. Fighting that a blood lust race shall 
not pass. Fighting that the pain, suffering and sacri- 
fices of the countless ages gone shall not have been made 
in vain, that the descendants of Washington and Lin- 
coln shall not be humbled and broken by the descend- 
ants of Attila the Hun. Fighting to keep the cove- 
nant with our Fathers, to keep burning the light of lib- 
erty, to guard our heritage, protect our homes and earn 
the respect and admiration of the coming generations. 
Fighting to preserve the hallowed associations that 
cluster about the unconquered and unconquerable flag 
of the free. Fighting to keep a brutal force from our 
bridal chambers, to keep the Zeppelins from murdering 
our innocent children, helpless women and defenseless 
civilians, to keep the black pirate submarines from ta- 
king their toll of death in our harbors and along our 
coasts. Fighting for the glory of God and the emanci- 
pation of the human race. "Over there" they are dying, 
dying, dying. Making the extreme sacrifice. Dying 

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with a prayer of hope and inspiration on their lips. 
Dying that right shall rule and that you and I may live. 
Dying that free men and free institutions shall not be 
wiped from the earth. Dying that the world may be 
saved for humanity and democracy. Dying that Chris- 
tianity and freedom shall not be crushed by the savage 
and brutal hand of Prussianism. Dying that the world 
may have a new birth of freedom, giving to all mankind 
the hopes, ideals and blessings designed in the great in- 
finite plan of creation. 

"Over there" the God-ordained Stars and Stripes is 
mating with the Tricolor of immortal France, unfurl- 
ing its protecting folds in solemn salute to the heroism 
and undying glory of bleeding Belgium; spreading be- 
fore the breeze with the Union Jack of Great Britain; 
mingling with the emblem of sunny, indomitable Italy; 
standing attention with Servia and Roumania and of- 
fering a helping hand to stricken Russia — each day 
thundering the soul-stirring battle cry, "The Blood- 
Lusting Hun Shall Not Pass!" 

"Over there" a million wreaths, spun from the deep- 
est gratitude of an endeared and loving people, blessed 
by the sacred affection of a million immortal souls, hon- 
ored by the chivalry of a thousand generations, kissed 
by the virgins of hope and eternal reward, will deck 
and mark and keep holy the hallowed ground made 
crimson by the blood of the martyrs who there sleep 
their eternal sleep. 

Be the struggle "over there" a part of the great in- 
finite plan of creation or an epoch, produced by the 
evolution of progress, activity and development, mat- 
ters little, because in the last analysis we find the whole 

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world facing a great transitional period — the birth of 
a new epoch is a dawning reality. 

This terrible death-dealing struggle, with its un- 
equaled slaughter and destruction ; the unmatched brav- 
ery and intrepid spirit of millions of men; the untold 
sacrifices of tens of millions of people, mean just one 
thing and one thing only — mankind will be given an 
opportunity to do its duty to God, to country and to pos- 
terity. 

Even though the fiendish Hun is crushed beyond 
revival, even though the house of the wicked Hohen- 
zoUern be blown to atoms and the militarism of Prus- 
sian autocracy is wiped from the earth, the cause "over 
there" will be lost unless you and I do our duty as sol- 
diers fighting for the cause of humanity. Victory "over 
there" will give us our opportunity. Do we understand? 
Will we be ready? 

Let us here highly resolve that the fruits of the vic- 
tory "over there" shall be for Humanity and Democ- 
racy, Freedom and Liberty, Equality and Justice 
throughout the world. 



CHAPTER 11. 

There Was War in Heaven. 

"There was war in Heaven, Michael and his 
angels fought against the dragon." 

The rule of the Almighty in Heaven had been 
challenged by the red dragon — greed, lust, selfishness 
and love of power. Michael had been delegated by 
God to overcome and destroy the rise of this evil genius 
and a furious battle lasting many days, where the for- 
tunes of success ebbed and flowed, had been fought and 
won when God pronounced his judgment that ended 
forever the presence of Satan in Heaven. The story of 
the casting of Satan out of Heaven, his sojourn in hell, 
his escape to the earth, is so well known to all that it 
will not here be repeated. 

By this simple story, so well authenticated, we are 
forcefully reminded that in every age, under every 
.condition, in every clime and land there has existed this 
red dragon of greed, lust, selfishness and love of power, 
bringing to mankind crime, want, misery, suffering and 
woe and standing as the arch enemy of human freedom, 
justice, individual liberty and universal brotherhood. 

The world has witnessed three great transitional 
periods, producing three great epochs. From the very 
earliest, mankind has progressed because of struggle, 
conflict and sacrifice. 

Indeed, from the primitive man to the present day 
is the long distance of ages, yet every step of that long, 
long trail is marked by the blood of the men and the 
women who have lived and struggled, suffered and died 
to make this a better world in which to live. And this, 
because at every inch on the road of progress, humanity 
and civilization have been compelled to meet and con- 
test with the forces of evil. 

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From the days of Michael to the coming of the 
Master, many, many battles were fought for the glory 
of God and the rights of man. Time after time in this 
struggle the forces of evil have triumphed over the 
hosts of truth, but in the last totaling, in the grand re- 
sult, truth prevailed and mighty progress has been made. 

The strange fact is that the hosts of God — truth, 
righteousness, human uplift, industrial freedom and in- 
dividual liberty — have reached their grandest and high- 
est summits of progress and achievement at the very 
time the forces of evil seemed to be riding on the high 
tide of success. Let me in a brief manner illustrate : 

Rome was at the zenith of her power and glory. 
She was a "world-wide confederation of aristocracies 
for the perpetuation of human servitude." Caesar Au- 
gustus had decreed that the whole world should be 
taxed to maintain and perpetuate this mighty confed- 
eration. Rome that sat on her seven hills and from her 
throne of beauty ruled the world, whose rulers brought 
many captives whose ransom did her general coffers 
fill ; Rome, the power of force that lived by the doctrine 
that might is right, presented every evidence of being an 
irresistible power. 

The people of Rome had become hardened to the 
oppression, butchery and debaucheries of Herod, Nero 
and the Caesars. The Roman system "bullied" the 
whole world. Here and there a few martyrs recorded 
their extreme sacrifice in defense of human progress. 
The doctrine of brute force seemed to be riding on the 
high tide of fixed establishment. 

Then there came out of Galilee a humble man, 
the son of a carpenter. He preached to the people in 
a very plain, but earnest manner. He taught a new 

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doctrine. He challenged and condcinned the doctrine 
of force. He defied the mighty Roman Empire and 
became the first great representative of the people. 
Armed in the holy cause of human justice, he aroused 
the "cowed" slaves of Roman servitude. The common 
people, the producing class, the laboring man, the man 
with good thoughts in his heart, caught up the spirit 
and the followers of Jesus became a mighty host. At 
this time, under the Roman rule, Jesus found opposing 
him the same force that has opposed and hindered the 
progress of truth in every age. The same force that re- 
belled against the rule of the Almighty in the days of 
Michael was there; the Pharisees were there as they are 
here ; the blood lust and gluttonous greed with its never 
ending cry for more and more was there, as it is here; 
the invisible government was there, as it is here; the 
system was there, as it is here. The plundering of the 
God-given resources was going on there, except to a 
greater degree, as it has been going on in the world 
ever since. 

He found the temples and sanctuaries of holy wor- 
ship turned into trading houses for the money changers ; 
he found the Caste System, the Silversmiths, the 
Judases, the Scribes, the High Priests, the Profiteers, 
and he condemned them all. 

And so came to pass the first great epoch, the 
founding of the christian religion, blessing humanity 
with new fruitage. And at this epoch we find the first 
great representative of the people. Michael made pos- 
sible the establishment of the christian religion. Christ 
made possible the founding of free government, with 
the recognition of the principle that all men are created 
equal. 

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CHAPTER III. 

The First Representative of the People. 

The first representative of the people was the last 
of the world's great teachers. This sentence is intended 
as a bold challenge. If it be correct it should arouse 
every right thinking person. If it be incorrect the truth 
should be forthcoming. Jesus was the first represent- 
ative of the people. His whole soul throbbed with the 
full rhythm of the laws of God and the rights of man. 
He lived and died for the good of mankind, not only 
the life in the hereafter, but here on earth in this sphere 
of activity. He preached industrial freedom, individ- 
ual liberty, human brotherhood, economic activity and 
good will to man. He condemned the doctrine of force, 
challenged the laws of Rome, rebuked the Scribes and 
Pharisees, cursed the money changers and denounced 
hypocrisy. He was the first representative of the peo- 
ple and the last of the world's great teachers. All agree 
that Jesus furnished the foundation and superstructure 
of the second great epoch, just as Michael gave the 
world the foundation for the great epoch that estab- 
lished the christian religion. 

From the death of Christ by the law-enforcing de- 
partment of the Roman Government down to the birth 
of the Declaration of Independence we find the evil 
forces heretofore referred to harassing the march of 
progress. The same dragon that battled with Michael 
and crucified Christ now vainly struggles to overthrow 
civilization, Christianity and human progress. 

In short, at this period of the world's evolution we 
find strikingly similar conditions to those observed all 

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along the road of progress, except that truth and right- 
eousness are gradually developing into a more potent 
force, the fruitage of which is daily bringing good 
results. I 

We finally reach the second great epoch in the 
march of world progress and that is the establishment 
of a Government of the people — giving the world the 
new doctrine that all men are created equal and that 
they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalien- 
able rights and among them are life, liberty and pursuit 
of happiness. 

A solemn period has now been reached. The dawn 
of a new epoch draws near. The shadows of darkness 
which had filled the sky of hope in the heavens of hu- 
man freedom are being dissipated. A humble and God- 
fearing people have founded their homes on the bleak 
and barren shores of a strange continent. Here they 
plant the seed of hope, inspiration and determination 
and give to all mankind a new freedom and to destiny 
a new light. 

From the four corners of the earth people flock to 
this haven of refuge, this land of opportunity and in- 
dividual liberty, until on our shores are found every 
type and mould of civilization, every nationality and all 
the bloods, lores, languages, religions and family ties 
which the history of mankind has listed. 

In the main these people have been thrifty, ener- 
getic and industrious. Witness them building their 
homes, erecting their altars, constructing their firesides 
and sanctifying their family circles. Behold them felling 
the mighty forests, toiling and spinning with glad hearts 
and willing hands, leveling the giant and rugged moun- 
tains and building bands of steel into every nook and 
corner. They have subdued the rapids, harnessed the 

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water powers, trapped the lightning, chained the tor- 
rents, spanned the rivers, joined the oceans and trans- 
formed the elements into things useful and beneficial to 
humanity. 

They have founded their villages in the wilderness 
and transformed them into great trade centers where 
countless industries sing the song of progress, making 
glad the hearts and happy the homes of countless mil- 
lions of toilers. 

Great institutions of research and learning, places 
of holy worship according to the dictates of the con- 
science of the worshiper have been erected and pro- 
tected. 

The magnitude of the progress of our industrial 
and business institutions, wrought in about three-quar- 
ters of a century, challenges the admiration of the 
world. Our wealth accumulation has been the marvel 
of the age. 

Greed early had its grip upon the throat of this 
nation. Corporate control began to strangle our indus- 
tries. Monopoly began to squeeze the great middle 
class, the producer and the laborer. American indus- 
try lost its freedom. The weak was crushed by the 
strong. Everything became commercialized. The 
great mill of selfish interests grinding on and on to pro- 
duce wealth, power and influence worked overtime. 
Crime came to the land of happiness, hunger and pov- 
erty to the land of plenty. Capital organized. Labor 
organized. 

The unseen hand of destiny after all made its ap- 
pearance. Again, observe that the hosts of God — 
truth, righteousness, human uplift, industrial freedom 
and individual liberty have reached their grandest sum- 

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mits and achieved their most splendid victories at the 
very time the forces of evil seem to be riding on the 
high tide of success. 

The world-wide conflict, in all its fury, with all its 
pent up hell, in all its death and destructiveness, will 
bring about a complete change. Its end will be the 
ushering in of a new epoch, the third epoch in the evo- 
lution of world events, THE BIRTH OF AMERI- 
CANISM. 

Again we observe that the eternal plan of creation 
under the hand of an all-wise God, step by step, is 
bringing the race higher and higher to the goal of hu- 
man perfection, where the human will finally blend 
and amalgamate with the spiritual and all will under- 
stand the spiritual conception of life. 



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CHAPTER IV. 
The World War. 

The World War has not only demonstrated the ab- 
solute and crying necessity of, but has provided the way 
for a full and complete readjustment and reorganization 
of our whole social, industrial and economic order. 
This change will involve a tremendous and exacting 
task. 

We find capital and labor ready to join hands and 
play their part in the building up of our productive 
energies to the full capacity of their productiveness. So- 
ciety is demanding this union. 

The great unorganized middle class, the stalwart 
citizenship of the nation, is demanding the elimination 
of all non-producing agencies. They demand a healthy 
and vigorous industrial system that will develop our in- 
dustries to the highest point of productiveness and our 
workmen to the highest point of efficiency, and a social 
and economic order that will protect the producer and 
consumer alike and give to all a fair and just portion of 
the products of his or her toil. They demand the free- 
dom of enterprise. 

Interwoven into the whole fabric is that well devel- 
oped thread of self-interest demanding special atten- 
tion. 

In the arena of political activity the people are de- 
manding that the oft repeated axiom, "public office is 
a public trust," shall be resolved into the new and high- 
er idea that a public trust conferred is the insignia of 
human brotherhood, which no man should be permitted 

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to wear who does not find his greatest gain and highest 
ambition realized in faithful work for others. 

Hovering over these forces of progress and pro- 
ductiveness like vultures are the greedy pirates of in- 
dustry that have ruled the industrial and economic 
life and dictated to the American people ever since 
the Civil War. These gamblers have levied an unholy 
tax upon every mouthful of food the people have con- 
sumed, every garment they have worn, every conveni- 
ence they have used, and every necessary bounty they 
have appropriated. They have been beyond the opera- 
tion of the law. Their bold manipulations gave us the 
red-handed, radical agitator of the anarchist and I. W, 
W. type. So we witness as a part of our industrial 
economy two great, organized, evil forces, one without 
the pale of the law, the other above the law, and both 
existing to the great detriment of the people. 

As a very natural consequence much protest and 
bitter agitation filled the land. Into this struggle was 
drawn every form of American life. This conflict dis- 
turbed the whole body politic, destroyed the harmony 
of our social life and at times threatened the very foun- 
dations of free government. 

The manipulations of organized and concentrated 
capital and the agitation and propaganda of organiza- 
tions of the I. W. W. brand became the twin evils of 
the age. 

Between these gambling and destructive forces, 
paying unwilling tribute to both, struggled the great 
unorganized middle class, the producer and the con- 
sumer. 

These and a host of other conditions combined into 

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an industrial and social state which had become alarm- 
ing. 

I fully appreciate the coldness of figures, but here 
I want to bring to you the magnitude of the far-reach- 
ing force and the undreamed of power of organized 
capital. These figures are beyond human conception. 
In 1853 there was brought into existence a mutual or- 
ganization called the New York Clearing House, com- 
posed of fifty-two members, since reduced to fifty. The 
ostensible purpose of this organization was to create 
within the United States a more perfect banking sys- 
tem. But its real object, as since developed, was to con- 
trol the money of the country through the medium of 
the banks, and in this they are absolutely supreme. So 
well did they succeed that in 1913 180 men held 385 di- 
rectorships in forty-one banks and trust companies hav- 
ing total resources of $3,832,000,000 and total deposits 
of $2,834,000,000; 50 directorships in eleven insurance 
companies having total assets of $2,646,000,000; 155 di- 
rectorships in 31 railroad systems having a total cap- 
italization of $12,193,000,000 and a total mileage of 
163,200; six directorships in two express companies and 
four directorships in one steamship company having a 
combined capitalization of $245,000,000 and a gross 
annual income of $97,000,000. 

These same men held 98 directorships in 28 pro- 
ducing and trading companies having a total capital- 
ization of $3,583,000,000 and total gross annual earn- 
ings in excess of $1,145,000,000; 48 directorships in 19 
public utility corporations having a total capitalization 
of $2,826,000,000 and total gross annual earnings in ex- 
cess of $470,000,000. In all, these 180 men held 746 
directorships in 134 corporations having total resources 

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or capitaHzation of $25,325,000,000, and at the top of 
this financial heap there have been three supreme, over- 
shadowing and directing forces in control of the finan- 
cial policy of the United States, having under their im- 
mediate and actual control more than one-fifth of the 
total v^^ealth of the nation. 

It should be observed that the combination con- 
trolling the wealth of the country does not belong to 
any particular political party. They respect neither 
flag nor country, neither man nor religion. Their lives 
are devoted to devising and developing schemes of ex- 
ploitation. Their one ambition is to accumulate 
wealth, to acquire influence and power and retain it. 

Space does not permit me to point out, or even 
begin to point out, the plundering process, cruel manip- 
ulations and blighting effect upon our national life of 
this gigantic force of evil. 

The past down to the beginning of the great World 
War I am going to leave as the dead past. In other 
words, these forces of evil, these Dragons, Herods, 
Neros, Molochs and Shylocks must, and by the grace 
of a just God will, now, when we are given the oppor- 
tunity, be destroyed lock, stock and barrel. 

The World War with all its horrors burst upon the 
world like a flash from the clear sky. As time went on 
the aim of the Central Powers began to dawn. In 1916 
Congress decided upon a plan of preparedness. A bill 
providing for a Government armor plate plant was pro- 
posed. The armor plate manufacturers immediately 
served notice on this Government that if the bill became 
a law they would immediately add two hundred dol- 
lars a ton to the price of their product and eventually 
dismantle their plants. This is mentioned as a small 

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detail to demonstrate the attitude of the Kaisers of In- 
dustry of America toward the great Government of the 
United States. 

The United States was finally forced into the con- 
flict "over there." American manhood and American 
womanhood responded to the call of their leader. Moth- 
ers, God bless and keep the Mothers, cheerfully and 
prayerfully gave to the cause "over there" their sons, 
wives their husbands, sweethearts their lovers. Even 
the little urchins saved their pennies and the widow 
gave her mite for the cause "over there." In the midst of 
this vast struggle, when the life of this great Govern- 
men was in the balance, when Humanity and Democ- 
racy were struggling with the beast of autocracy and 
the world trembled in fear, what were the pirates of 
industry doing? I have before me the Congressional 
Record dated July 3, 1918, and I read: 

"In support of the President's charge against the 
profiteers we now have the report of the Federal Trade 
Commission, dated June 29, 1918, which is a shocking 
revelation of the avarice of the profiteers. The report 
covers in chief the great basic products of mining and 
industry, the commodities upon which practically all 
other prices are based. I will not attempt more than a 
hasty analysis of the report. 

STEEL 

The Steel Trust made 24.9 per cent in 1917 upon 
the total amount invested in its business as against 4.7 
per cent in 1912, 5.7 per cent in 1913, and 2.8 per cent in 
1914. Even these enormous figures are small in com- 
parison with the profits of Follansbee Bros. Co., 112.48 
per cent; West Leechburg Steel Co., 109.05 per cent; 
West Penn Steel Co., 159.01 per cent, and dwindle into 

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modesty as compared with the profits of Nagle Steel 
Co., which reach the murderous figure of 319.67 per 
cent. 

COPPER, NICKEL AND ZINC 

The average profits of 21 leading copper compan- 
ies were found by the commission to average 24.4 per 
cent. Some of the concerns earned as high as 107 per 
cent on their investments. These figures show profits 
left after paying all Federal taxes and show the net 
amounts applied to dividends. 

The New Jersey Zinc Co., which has a practical* 
monopoly of zinc production, shows 95.9 per cent 
profits. 

The International Nickel Co., which also has a 
monopoly, made 30 per cent on its investment. 

SULPHUR 

Two corporations together enjoy a practical mon- 
opoly in sulphur production. They made for 11 
months, ending October 31 last, 236 per cent on their 
investments. It costs about $6 per ton to produce sul- 
phur. These concerns charged from $18 to $35 per 
ton for their product. 

LUMBER 

The lumber industry has been comparatively len- 
ient. On an average the mills made net profits of 20 
per cent during 1917, though some mills ran up to 121 
per cent. The average for 1916 was 5.2 per cent. 

COAL 

.Coal producers seem to have been guilty of the 
most shameless profiteering of all, not that their profits 
were greater than other profiteers, but because they 
dealt in a necessary of life — coal — which must be used 

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by rich and poor alike, so that much of their extortion 
was practiced upon the poor and oppressed. The soft- 
coal producers of central Pennsylvania in 1916 made 
an average profit of only 20 cents per ton. In 1917 
their profit was 90 cents per ton. Coal producers in 
the middle states made 54 cents per ton profit as against 
10 to 15 cents for the prewar period. So that the com- 
mission's report shows that coal operators had increased 
their profits from 300 to 500 per cent. The commis- 
sion's investigation did not extend to the Alabama 
fields, so that I have no accurate information as to the 
profits made. I do know that coal which was sold f. o. 
b. mines at from 90 cents to $1.35 per ton in 1912, 1913 
and 1914 was sold during 1917 at from $2.25 to $2.90 
per ton after Government prices had been fixed, and 
that prior to price fixing the price in some cases reached 
$4 per ton. ^^^^ ^^^ GASOLINE 

The war emergency has given a golden opportu- 
nity to Standard Oil and its subsidiaries. They have 
earned from 24 to 63 per cent upon their investments. 
MEAT AND LEATHER 

The big packers have proven themselves the rob- 
bers that they were believed to be. The big four — 
Armour, Swift, Morris and Cudahy — had averaged 
prewar profits— 1912, 1913 and 1914— of $19,000,000; 
in 1917 they earned $86,000,000. They did well in 1915 
and 1916 for their profits for the last three years have 
reached $142,000,000. Morris & Co. for 1917 earned 
263.7 per cent on capital stock. Armour in 1916 in- 
creased its capital stock from $20,000,000 to $100,000,- 
000, not a dollar of new money being paid for the new 
stock. 

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The packers are also interested directly and indi- 
rectly in the hide and leather business. A tremendous 
advance in prices of leather was made in 1917 and 
enormous profits realized. The Eastern Leather Co. 
paid 53 per cent dividends on its common stock after 
transferring 10 per cent to its surplus. The people paid 
this when they bought their shoes. 

FLOUR AND MILK 

Flour millers increased their profits during 1917 
400 per cent, but the increase was distributed so that 
only a little was paid by each individual. Millers had 
been content with an average of 13 cents per barrel 
profit, but with the war they increased their average 
to 52 cents a barrel and paid profits of 38 per cent on 
their investments. 

The canned milk business is monopolized by a few 
concerns. One of these made 65 per cent on its invest- 
ments and the others something less. Even little babies 
depending for nourishment upon a can of condensed 
milk are required to yield something to the war prof- 
iteers 

THEY BETRAY OUR SOLDIERS 

I can not take space to further notice the details of 
the commission's report. It is a sickening situation. The 
Nation is confronted with a powerful and unscrupulous 
adversary. Engaged in a stupendous war, it is sending 
its soldiers across the seas to fight the battles of man- 
kind. Our brave soldiers are pouring out their life- 
blood upon the battle fields of France and performing 
deeds of deathless heroism. Our armies are winning 
imperishable glory for American arms. Over the seas 
they are showing all that is splendid, magnanimous and 
fine in our civilization, and here at home millions of 

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patriotic citizens are watching and praying for the win- 
ning of the war. In millions of American homes the 
anxious mother prays for the absent son and feels a holy 
and solemn pride in his sacrifice, and humble citizens 
toil through the long hours that our country may be 
saved. Patriots are denying themselves of food and 
clothes so as to give their strength and substance to our 
armies. Yet into this awful and sacred situations slinks 
the ghoulish profiteer, who would turn his country's 
extremity to his own advantage. 

The winning of the war is the chief and almost 
only concern of every good citizen ; yet, and I say it with 
all deliberation, the greatest obstacle to American suc- 
cess are the men who are seeking to make fortunes in 
war profits." 

I have verified these figures in the report of the 
commission appointed by that God-given leader of 
truth, Woodrow Wilson, and find them correct. 

I have before me the Berlin Vorwaerts — it is the 
month of July — the great drive on the Western front is 
on, the fate of Germany is being determined, and I 
read: 

"As for that we are all sinners. Profiteering ex- 
ceeds all bounds. Usury is rampant among all classes. 
Fraudulent profiteering like that of Daimler works is 
in no wise an exception. Even official bodies attempt 
to extort illegal profits. But poor folk can only buy 
clothes at the official clothing department by bribing 
the salesmen with tips or food." 

From Austria-Hungary comes the same warning. 

In August of this year the Associated Press brings 
news from Japan to this effect: 

"At Nagoya, noted for its manufactures of porce- 

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lains, a mob estimated at 30,000 persons rioted. At sev- 
eral places the soldiers fired on the distrubers. 

"At Kobe the soldiers and police also were obliged 
to use sabers and bayonets. 

"There was serious rioting in Tokio Wednesday 
night. Mobs attacked and damaged property in the 
business and theater districts. 

"The rioters also entered and pillaged houses in 
Asa Kusa, the great recreation resort of the middle and 
lower classes. A number of the disturbers were wound- 
ed by the police. 

"The newspaper comment here seems to indicate 
that the food riots throughout the country are an ex- 
pression of growing social unrest among the people 
and to reflect the belief that the empire is advancing 
toward a social crisis. The riots are spreading, involv- 
ing the poor and the middle classes. 

"It is remarked that the uprisings are often anti- 
capitalistic, mobs destroying property and voicing 
anger at evidences of luxury. Geisha girls have been 
stoned in the streets and the houses of the rich have been 
assailed. The war has increased the luxuries of the rich 
and the misery of the poor, as insufficient wages are 
paid. The riots are the first of the kind to occur since 
Japan was opened to western civilization. 

"Disorders broke out in Tokio on Tuesday night. 
A crowd of 5000 which was prevented from congrega- 
ting in the park marched to the Ginza, the great retail 
thoroughfare of the city, where they stoned and dam- 
aged 200 stores and restaurants, raided rice depots and 
unsuccessfully attacked the ministry of the interior. 
Ninety arrests were made and 20 policemen were in- 
jured. Tokio tonight is occupied by heavy detachments 
of police and infantry. The newspapers are forbidden 
to publish news of any kind relative to the rice riots." 

Here we pause just long enough to note that the 
Dragon of Michael, the Nero and Pilate of Jesus, the 
Moloch of Milton, the Shylock of Shakespeare find a 

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splendid representative in the profiteer of today. He 
is the greed lusting Hun of America, more dangerous 
than the blood-lusting Hun of Europe. He knows no 
God but greed, no country but profit, no flag but gain, 
no brotherhood but interest, no fatherhood but brutal 
selfishness. Treason is an open account in the eyes of 
the greed lusting and vultur hearted profiteer. He 
never sleeps, has no compunctions or remorse. 

Pause here for just a moment and realize this con- 
dition: The means of transportation and communica- 
tion, and industrial concerns of gigantic magnitude vi- 
tally affecting productive energy and progress, social 
order and welfare of all the people, for all intents and 
purposes, are in the hands of the Government. Sup- 
pose a representative, or even a friend of the Kaisers 
of Industry of America should be elected as President of 
the United States, while these industries are in this con- 
dition, what would happen? Every student of history 
knows exactly what would happen, and it is far, far 
from a pleasant reflection. I have every faith in the 
peaceable tendencies of the American people, but they 
are a people who will demand justice and fight for it 
when necessary. 

The point I emphasize, the thing I want to drive 
home, is that it is quite as important for the cause of 
HUMANITY AND DEMOCRACY, FREEDOM 
AND PROGRESS for the American people to win 
the struggle which will be involved in the "after the 
war fight for industrial and economic freedom" as it is 
for the world to win the conflict now raging in Europe. 
We have been ruled by selfish interests long enough. 
We have paid unholy tribute too long. 

This force shall not return to power to dominate 

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and control American life, to rob the producer of his 
product and the laborer of his toil. It shall not return 
to blight the hope of success and darken the hearthside 
of opportunity. 

Its curse shall be removed. 

I stake this statement on my knowledge of the 
American people. I know them as a peace loving, God 
fearing people, representing the perfection of thrift, 
energy and industry. 

By natural process of unfoldment, living up to their 
ideals, they have progressed from the good, to the bet- 
ter and from the better to the best. They are the recog- 
nized advance guard of humanity, progress and 
achievement. Destiny has decreed that this force shall 
destroy the blood-lusting Hun of Europe just as certain- 
ly as Michael destroyed the coveted rule of his ancestor 
in Heaven. Truth has decreed that Americanism will 
take the place of the rule of the greed-lust Hun of 
America. And as sure as God rules in Heaven and 
right lives on earth that decree will be executed. 



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CHAPTER V. 

Thirty Thousand New Millionaires. 

Thirty thousand new millionaires since the begin- 
ning of the war in Europe tells history in a line. It re- 
quires not the wisdom of a prophet, or the vision of a 
son of a prophet, to divine with reasonable accuracy 
what the future has in store. This mighty plunder rung 
from the bleeding hearts of suffering people and na- 
tions will be added to the ill-gotten gains of a wicked 
system. It will be used as the mighty concentration of 
capital in the past has been used — to enslave mankind 
and stifle legitimate progress. 

The hirelings furnishing the brains for the big in- 
terests will be quick to see their golden opportunity. 
The invisible hand will reach out like the clutching 
claw of the fable. The pirates of industry, by their es- 
tablished avenues of reaching the people, will laud 
THEMSELVES to the skies. They will be quick to 
tell the world how WE and the United States entered 
the war in defense of Democracy and Christianity, Hu- 
man Freedom and Individual Liberty. With their horns 
well concealed and looking piety itself they will solemn- 
ly point out how WE opened wide OUR treasury 
chests to help in the glorious cause of the struggling Al- 
lies; how OUR bins, granaries and storehouses were 
emptied of OUR savings and accumulations and how 
WE fed the world. How many of OUR brave sons 
sleep their eternal sleep upon the sacred and hallowed 
fields of immortal France; how OUR God-given wom- 
en traveled into the valley of the shadow of death upon 
a foreign soil to succor the dying and bury the dead. 

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This will be the foundation of their propaganda. While 
this is going on the people of the earth will be religious- 
ly mourning their dead, tilling the fields, tending their 
herds, developing the mines, building their homes and 
consecrating their lives to the restoration of the wrecked 
fortunes of the war. 

Deep and everlasting gratitude will overflow in 
the grateful hearts of millions of people. On bended 
knee before the shrine of Americanism they will return 
thanks to Almighty God. To them Americanism will 
be their hope and inspiration, generating in their souls 
new courage and determination. The emblem of 
America will be their guiding star. At this psycholog- 
ical moment the industrial pirates, whose plans are 
even now well developed, will attempt to move in and 
take possession of everything that will produce profit. 
If their program succeeds the firesides of the world will 
pay lasting tribute to this new, strange, exacting, invis- 
ible power and the profit-lusting Huns of the industrial 
world will win back from the people what the blood- 
lusting Hun lost on the fields of battle in Europe. The 
world will then learn that the Kaisers of Industry are 
just as brutal and dangerous as the Kaisers of the Hoh- 
enzoUerns. 

The Federal Trade Commission, reporting to the 
President of the United States as late as August, this 
year, characterizes the Beef Barons as an intricate fab- 
ric of monopolies, controls, combinations, conspiracies 
and restrains, and points out this burning fact: 

"Out of the mass of information in our hands one 
fact stands out with all possible emphasis. The small 
dominant group of American meat packers are now in- 
ternational in their activities, while remaining Ameri- 
can in their identity. Blame which now attaches to 

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them for their practices abroad as well as at home in- 
evitably will attach to our country if the practices con- 
tinue." "The menace of this concentrated control of 
the nation's food," says this same report, "is increased 
by the fact that these five corporations and their FIVE 
HUNDRED and odd subsidiary, controlled and af- 
filiated companies are bound together by joint owner- 
ships, agreements, understandings, communities of in- 
terest and family relationships" * * * 

"The Armour, Swift, Morris and Wilson interests 
have entered into a combination with certain foreign 
corporations by which export shipments of beef, mutton 
and other meats from the principal South American 
meat-producing countries are apportioned among the 
several companies on the basis of agreed percentages. 
In conjunction with this conspiracy meetings are held 
for the purpose of securing the maintenance of the 
agreement and making such readjustments as from time 
to time may be desirable. THE AGREEMENTS 
RESTRICT SOUTH AMERICAN SHIPMENTS 
TO EUROPEAN COUNTRIES AND THE UNI- 
TED STATES." 

"Since the meat supplies of North and South 
America constitute practically the only sources from 
which the United States and her Allies can satisfy their 
needs for the armies, navies and civil populations, these 
two agreements constitute a conspiracy on the part of 
the big five, in conjunction with certain foreign cor- 
porations, to monopolize an essential part of the food of 
the United States, England, France and Italy " 

These same Barons of Finance secured a monopoly 
of the coffee production of the world by an agreement 
with the province of Sao Paulo, in the Republic of 
Brazil. In this agreement it is expressly provided that 
no new coffee orchards shall be planted during the life 
of the agreement, and the Government of Sao Paulo 
enacted a special law to this effect. Do you wonder 

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that the people of South America look with grave sus- 
picion upon the United States? 

Make no mistake about it, the eyes of the world 
are upon us. A new doctrine, Americanism, is being 
ushered into activity. Like the doctrine promulgated 
by the Master, it is being resisted by the powers of evil, 
greed, selfishness and avarice. By every power at their 
command these forces are resisting and challenging this 
step of human freedom, liberty and justice. 

It will thus be seen at a glance how important it 
is for the American nation to maintain a very high 
standard of humanitarian principles, principles of right 
and fair dealing, at home and abroad. I am not an al- 
truist by any means, but I do say that we must help the 
weak and curb the strong. More than this, we must 
stand for a principle that will give to every man, woman 
and child a reasonable opportunity to make good in the 
great game of life. We must not, we shall not, disap- 
point or betray those who will now look to us for assist- 
ance and guidance, nor permit them to fall into the 
hands of the Pharisees wearing garbs of Americanism. 
By entering the world war, with the promises we have 
made, we must accept this new world trust and dis- 
charge our duty as a faithful trustee. The new light of 
Americanism must be the beacon light of the world; it 
must be the signal of safety and not a decoy to trap the 
unwary and credulous. And again, after this observa- 
tion, I say the pirates of industry shall not return to 
power by putting on the clothes of Americanism. This 
force must be destroyed. 



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CHAPTER VI. 
The Doom of Autocracy. 

The doom of Prussian Military Autocracy of Ger- 
many should be a solemn warning to the Financial Au- 
tocracy of America. The American people will avoid 
to the very last effort and argument a French Revolu- 
tion, but the American people are going to end the rule 
and reign of financial autocracy in America at any cost. 
If the Financial Autocracy of America could read 
the handwriting on the wall of irresistible progress 
It would learn something from the fall of the Bastile, 
the French Revolution, the destruction of the might)^ 
Russian Empire and the dream of unhappy Finland. 
The sad reflection is that nothing short of complete 
annihilation of the power of the financial autocracy in 
America will be the safe road to travel. The financial 
autocracy of America, like its twin evil, the military 
autocracy of Germany, has confidence that its doctrine 
of force and deception, that might is right, will pre- 
vail over the doctrine of human brotherhood and free- 
dom. Therein lies the grave danger, because no one 
can determine to what extent this force will go to pre- 
serve this position. Let it be said here again and yet 
again that the American people will never permit the 
financial autocracy of America to succeed to the inter- 
ests of the military autocracy of Prussia. 

President Wilson understands the temper, ideals, 
needs and demands of the American people and the re- 
quirements of industrial activity and economic prog- 
ress. He knows the stupendous power and force of the 
special privileged interests and their blighting and 

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damning effect on our National life. He has felt the 
grip of the iron claw of the unseen hand directed by 
the invisible Government at Washington. He has 
wrestled with the mighty world problems which mean 
weal or woe to the countless millions yet to come. 

With justice to all, with malice to none, with pray- 
erful consideration of every question, he has stood like 
a mighty figure of destiny, giving just judgment and 
dealing out equal, exact and lasting justice to all. Hence 
it is that the call of destiny, the cry of humanity and 
the demand of duty is that he shall serve the American 
people until the threatened storm has passed. 

In 1913 this man of destiny wrote: 

"American industry is not free, as once it was free; 
American enterprise is not free; the man with only a 
little capital is finding it harder to get into the field, 
more and more impossible to compete with the big fel- 
low. Why? Because the laws of this country do not 
prevent the strong from crushing the weak. That is the 
reason, and because the strong have crushed the weak 
the strong dominate the industry and the economic life 
of this country" ; and again : 

"I should like to take a census of the business men 
— I mean the rank and file of the business men — as to 
whether they think that business conditions in this 
country, or rather whether the organization of business 
in this country, is satisfactory or not. I KNOW WHAT 
THEY WOULD SAY IF THEY DARED. If they 
could vote secretly they would vote overwhelmingly 
that the present organization of business was meant for 
the big fellows and was not meant for the little fellows; 
that it was meant for those who are at the top and was 
meant to exclude those who are at the bottom; that it 
was meant to shut out beginners, to prevent new entries 
in the race, to prevent the building up of competitive 

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enterprises that would interfere with the monopolies 
which the great trusts have built up" ; and again : 

"The originative part of America, the part of 
America that makes new enterprises, the part into which 
the ambitious and gifted workingman makes his wav 
up, the class that saves, that plans, that organizes, that 
presently spreads its enterprises until they have a na- 
tional scope and character— that middle class is being 
more and more squeezed out by the processes which we 
have been taught to call processes of prosperity." 

The reason President Wilson could so readily un- 
derstand the German Imperial Government, penetrate 
the innermost secrets of its power, lay bare its cunning 
manipulations, expose to the world its duplicity and 
cold-blooded deception, was he understood the mech- 
anism, organization and business principles of Bia 
Business of America. 

He had come in contact with the ramifications and 
experienced the power and influence of the great spec- 
ulators and financiers. He had seen them rule, learned 
their ideals, and observed their method of doing busi- 
ness. 

Brute force and deception were the chief pillars of 
both the German Government and the big American 
corporations. Might is right is their constant thought 
Crush everything that stands in the road of progress is 
their first principle. 

With searching accuracy Wilson points out the ef- 
fect of Big Business control upon our social life • "Let 
me illustrate what I mean: It used to be true in our 
cities that every family occupied a separate house of its 
own, that every family had its own little premises, that 
every family was separated in its life from every other 
family. That is no longer the case in our great cities. 



Families live in tenements, they live in flats, they live 
on floors; they are piled layer upon layer in the great 
tenement houses of our crowded districts, and not only 
are they piled layer upon layer, but they are associated 
room by room, so that there is in every room, sometimes, 
in our congested districts, a separate family." 

And this is a country which the all wise Creator 
has endowed and blessed with an endless abundance of 
natural resources, untold riches and boundless wealth. 
The land of mighty forests, crystal lakes and great riv- 
ers. A land where the mountains, pregnant with en- 
chanting, mystifying and fascinating scenery, filled 
with waterfalls playing with the fairies of rest, recrea- 
tion and inspiration, lift their peaks high into the heav- 
ens, where the bowels of the earth are filled with gold, 
copper, silver and other precious metals, where the far- 
reaching rich plains and fertile prairies feast with the 
music of the sower and the song of the reaper, where the 
streams and bays, lakes and harbors swarm with a thou- 
sand varieties of the finny tribe, where the air is pure, 
the birds sing, and the flowers bloom, where the sun- 
shine and the rain play with each other, where the all 
wise Creator has built for mankind a haven of rest for 
the weary, a land of hope and promise for his children, 
and blessed it in the name of Life, Liberty, Equality 
and Justice. Yet, withall, "American industry is not 
free" and the "middle class is being more and more 
squeezed out by the processes which we have been 
taught to call processes of prosperity" and "families 
live in tenements, they live in flats, they live on floors; 
they are piled layer upon layer in the great tenement 
houses of our crowded districts, and not only are they 
piled layer upon layer, but they are associated room by 

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room, so that there is in every room sometimes, in our 
congested districts, a separate family." 

Do you wonder by this time why the autocratic in- 
terests have passed the sentence of death on Wilsonism? 
Are you surprised when you are told that the autocratic 
powers which have controlled our industrial, social, 
economic, religious and every day life have determined 
upon a plan to eliminate Wilsonism in America? Who 
would you trust for the next four years, Wilson or the 
Huns of industry in America? I repeat: Draft Presi- 
dent Wilson is not an original thought of the author. 
It is the call of destiny, the cry of humanity and the de- 
mand of duty. It is the hope of industrial freedom in 
America. The dream of Americanism for the world, 
the fulfillment of our duty to posterity. 

Most certainly no one expects the American peo- 
ple to sit supinely down and miss this golden oppor- 
tunity to become the balance of power of the world. I 
am a firm believer in the doctrine of doing things and 
doing them in the most effective method, the way that 
will produce the best and most lasting results. Result 
after all is what counts. I have no time for the drone, 
the indolent, the ne'er-do-well, either as an individual 
or a nation. I want to see society made up of happy, 
healthy, hardy, energetic, industrious and independent 
individuals, and then I want society to give them their 
chance in life. I am perfectly willing to see the indi- 
vidual or nation that does not contribute their share to 
the march of progress left by the roadside. I will help 
him by giving him a fair chance to help himself. 

No good reason can be given why New York 
should not be the front door to the world's commerce. 
None can be assigned why it should not be the world's 

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great trade center and the world's chief clearing house. 

Our unlimited natural resources, our geographical 
position, our untold riches, the genius and energy of 
our people, their progressive ideas, our ability and 
spirit of determination to lead, our ideals of freedom 
and justice entitle us to lead the procession in the mighty 
march of world progress and advancement. I fully 
realize that the day of individualism has passed never 
again to return. Even the individuality of nations will 
disappear. What I demand is the destruction of those 
powers which are shackling our industries, robbing our 
people, hindering our progress, keeping us from taking 
our place as the greatest nation under the blue canopy 
of Heaven, and degrading us in the eyes of the world. 
I have no quarrel with big business, however gigantic 
it may become, but I earnestly press the point that we 
have in our industrial economy dangerous and de- 
structive forces which must be eliminated. 

I do not mean to leave the impression that our sys- 
tem of Government has not been a success. It has been 
more than a success. What I mean to convey is that 
society is not an organization. It is an organism; a 
living thing. 

I cannot escape the proposition that throughout 
the whole boundless realm of life, process and progress, 
the individual, in the last analysis, best serves himself 
and his personal needs when his highest ideals of true 
value aim toward the welfare of the whole realm of 
human life. The socialogical compact, called society, 
will be rich, healthy, vigorous and fruitful as each in- 
dividual contributes something to produce such a state; 
and in turn each individual will partake of the fruitage 
of that contribution. 

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To my mind this is America's great golden, never- 
to-return opportunity. It is our chance to make our 
anvils ring around the world, our chance to send our 
wares into every mart and port. Our destiny is in our 
hands. The twentieth century is the age of American- 
ism. Let us unite as Americans, proud of our great 
country and loyal to her institutions, in a grand move- 
ment of human uplift, and let us begin at home. Let us 
break the shackles that are corrupting and blighting 
our manhood and debauching and crippling our wom- 
anhood. Let us tear down the temple of the profiteer 
and end his reign of remorseless greed for wealth and 
power and build in its place a temple of good. A tem- 
ple whose superstructure shall be equal opportunities to 
all, a temple bound together with golden cables of 
brotherly love and human kindness, filled with peace 
on earth and good will toward man. A temple cov- 
ered with the ever-creeping vines of light, progress and 
achievement and dedicated to liberty, equality and 
justice. 



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CHAPTER VII. 
Let Us Reason Together. 

Let no one mistake or misconstrue the motive 
which has actuated this effort. I am not of the same 
political faith as that of President Wilson. I am a re- 
publican, proud of the glorious record of that grand 
old party. I am an American first and a republican 
afterwards. There are just two parties in the United 
States — Americans and traitors. 

I rejoice to see partisan politics being swept into 
the discard for the duration of the war and for the full 
period of reconstruction and reorganization after the 
war. 

On the eve of the Spanish-American war I was de- 
lighted to read from the pen of that stalwart, splendid, 
red-blooded American, Theodore Roosevelt: 

"Remember, that whether you will or not, your 
votes this year will be viewed by the nations of Europe 
from one standpoint only. They will draw no fine dis- 
tinctions. A refusal to sustain the President this year, 
will, in their eyes, be read as a refusal to sustain the war 
and to sustain the efforts of our peace commission to 
secure the fruit of war. Such a refusal may not incon- 
ceivably bring about a rupture of the peace negotia- 
tions. It will give heart to our defeated antagonists; it 
will make possible the interference of those doubtful 
neutral nations, who in this struggle have wished us 
ill." 

Benjamin Harrison on the same subject said: 

"If the word goes forth that the people of the Uni- 
ted States are standing solidly behind the President, the 
task of the peace commissioners will be easy." 

I give here a few of the prominent Republicans 

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serving under President Wilson : Wm. H. Taft, Chair- 
man War Labor Board; Chas. E. Hughes, Investigate 
Aircraft; C. M. Schwab, Chairman Emergency Fleet 
Corporation; Chas. Piez, Vice President Fleet Cor- 
poration; Wm. Phillips, Assistant Secretary of State; 
L. W. Woolsey, Solicitor, State Department; L. S. 
Rowe, Assistant Secretary of Treasury; R. C. Leffing- 
well, Assistant Secretary of Treasury; Frank A. Van- 
derlip, Chairman War Savings Stamps Commission; 
Benedict Crowell, First Assistant Secretary of War; 
Frederick P. Keppel, Assistant Secretary of War; E. R. 
Stettinius, Assistant Secretary of War; A. B. Bielaski, 
Bureau of Investigation; Wm. R. Willcox, Federal 
Railway Wage Commission; H. A. Garfield, United 
States Fuel Administrator; Herbert Hoover, Food Ad- 
ministrator. 

The world war has reached proportions far, far 
beyond the human mind to conceive. The population 
of the combined allied nations is 1,439,759,105; the 
combined population of the central powers is 144,084,- 
000. The armed strength of the allies is 23,285,603 ; the 
armed strength of the central powers is 10,600,000. If 
partisan politics is more important than the issue at 
stake between these mighty forces then I am wrong in 
my premises, otherwise I am right. 

On every hand, in our National life, we witness 
the blighting influence of partisan politics, carping 
politicians and swivel chair parasites. It will be a 
happy day for industrial freedom and equal opportun- 
ity when we can do some wholesome housecleaning 
along this line. 

Pothouse politicians and swivel chair parasites are 
responsible for the life of the hyphen and a thousand 

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other evils which we now find gnawing at the very 
vitals of society and the foundation of government. The 
day of the blood-sucking parasite, thank God, is draw- 
ing to a close in America and his twin evil, partisan pol- 
itics, will go with him. 

Quite recently President Wilson suggested Henry 
Ford, the automobile man of Detroit, as United States 
senator from Michigan. This brought a sharp howl 
from the profiteers. As usual, the protest came from 
the wolves of Wall Street and was handed to the Ameri- 
can people by a choice collection of newspapers of the 
profiteer brand. The objection to Ford is: He does 
not conduct his business on a profiteering basis ; he pays 
a living wage to and has a good word for the working 
man; he worked for peace while there was hope of 
peace; he is doing more to win the war than any other 
living man, except the President of the United States; 
his patriotism is not based upon five hundred per cent 
or one thousand per cent profit; he is a red-blooded 
American, living up to the true and coming ideals of 
Americanism. "Wall Street gamblers and profiteers 
will not blacken the character of Henry Ford, who 
worked for peace while there was hope of peace and 
who works only for his Nation's victory now." Ford 
is a household name in America. I mention this only 
to illustrate the tactics of the profiteers and special 
privileged interests of this country. Ford is not the only 
man marked for slaughter by this gang. Every man in- 
terfering with their game of plunder and profits will 
meet the same fate. Even more, every man with Wil- 
son principles in his heart, every man struggling for in- 
dustrial freedom and the uplift of mankind will feel 
the iron claw of their baneful influence. Business men 

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striving to serve the wants of their community in an 
honest fashion cannot exist with the consent of these 
pirates of industry. 

The only reason President Wilson is not attacked in 
the open is they fear him. They realize that he has the 
confidence of the American people. They have felt 
the sting of his lash too often to clash with him at this 
time. I am firm in my conviction that Wilson is the 
one man in America who can and will hold these com- 
binations at bay and protect the interests of all the peo- 
ple all the time. 

Wilson and Wilsonism belong not alone to 
America, they belong to the world, to mankind. They 
are a part of the great plan of human progress. 

The struggle between Democracy and Autocracy, 
between the doctrine of force and the doctrine of hu- 
manity, is world-wide. The issue is squarely drawn. 
The battle lines are formed. There is no middle 
ground. The sapping politician can protest to his 
heart's content. The job-hunting parasite can weep and 
wail and gnash his teeth. The pacifists can moan and 
sicken at their pleasure. There will be no retreat. "The 
settlement must be final. There can be no compromise. 
No half-way decision would be tolerable. No half- 
way decision is conceivable." The demand of human- 
ity "Down with Kaiserism" will mean "Down with 
Kaiserism" not only in Germany, but in every land 
cursed by its blighting hand. The associated peoples of 
the earth are fighting to establish "The reign of law, 
based upon the consent of the governed and sustained 
by the organized opinion of mankind." 

I do not mean to convey the idea that there is no 
presidential timber, except Wilson, in the United 

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States at this time. Far from such a suggestion. All 
agree that there are many, many master minds in the 
United States. Men who could and would serve their 
country with true patriotism and fidelity. Indeed, the 
land is filled with able, patriotic, dependable, deter- 
mined and honest men. Ordinarily I would uphold 
the third-term precedent. But we are not living in an 
ordinary age. The present crisis is far, far beyond the 
extraordinary. It is the world-wide critical period of 
the age. The war has not yet been won. We shall yet 
sacrifice thousands of lives and spend billions of money. 

However able, patriotic, devoted, learned, experi- 
enced and capable a man may be, the fact remains no 
human being can take the reins of Government, grasp 
the mighty problems facing us and handle the affairs 
of state effectively. In short, it seems preposterous to 
even suggest a change. In the language of the im- 
mortal Lincoln, we should not swap horses in the mid- 
dle of the stream. 

In this mighty struggle let us bury deep, deep be- 
yond all possible hope of resurrection, partisan politics, 
sectarian bigotry, long-faced hypocrisy and abnormal 
greed. 

Let us live that we can look the whole world in 
the face without apology. Let us generate in the in- 
nermost recess of our soul the joyful realization that 
we have done our whole duty. And now again I say 
the call of destiny, the cry of humanity and the demand 
of duty is that President Woodrow Wilson shall serve 
the world for four years after the expiration of his 
present term of office. 



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CHAPTER VIII. 

Our Pledge. 

Let Us Pledge Ourselves Again and Yet Again. 

By the blessings of those hardy, humble and God- 
fearing Pilgrims who founded their homes on the bleak 
and barren shores of New England, there erecting their 
family altars, building their family firesides, keeping 
sacred the family circle, planting the seed of hope, 
courage and determination and giving to all mankind 
a new freedom and to destiny a new light. 

By the sacred memory of the immortal fathers who 
brought forth upon this continent a new form of gov- 
ernment conceived in liberty and dedicated to the prop- 
osition that all men are created equal. 

By the inspiration instilled by the heroism and un- 
dying courage of the dauntless men at Lexington and 
Concord, Bunker Hill and Saratoga, Valley Forge and 
Yorktown. 

By the lessons taught by the determined and fear- 
less victors at New Orleans and on Lake Erie, the dying 
martyrs at the Alamo and the daring and unconquer- 
able heroes at Buena Vista and Chapultepec. 

By the eternal obligations fixed by the unmatched 
bravery and intrepid spirit of the gallant men at Get- 
tysburg and Missionary Ridge, at Shiloh and in the 
Wilderness, storming the heights above the clouds at 
Lookout Mountain, and charging the death-dealing 
walls at Vicksburg, 

By the duty imposed by the glorious achievement 
of the courageous men sailing into the harbor of Man- 
ila, carrying the unconquered and unconquerable Stars 

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and Stripes into Asiatic lands and bearing the message 
of human uplift and the betterment of man. 

By the monuments built for humanity when the 
lives of our manhood were lost in the jungles of Cuba 
that the light of liberty and equal opportunity might 
reach an oppressed and enslaved people. 

By the courage and inspiration given us by those 
hardy and daring pioneers, who blazed the trails, 
transformed the wilds into civilization, changed the 
mighty forests into marts of trade and commerce, made 
the desert bloom with golden grains and luscious fruits 
to appease the appetite and satisfy the hunger of man, 
beast and bird, ever enduring the hardships and priva- 
tions, ever building from the good to the better and 
from the better to the best. 

By the faith, hope and confidence inspired by the 
sacred and guiding light kept blazing by our God-given 
women on the long, long trail called the march of civ- 
ilization, ever and ever pouring out their noble and 
divine influences, ever and ever struggling, suffering 
and sacrificing for the good of humanity and the ben- 
efit of the race. 

By our duty to our heroes living and our martyrs 
dead. 

By the debt we owe to the countless generations 
struggling on and on through fire and blood to make us 
possible. 

By all these I repeat, let us pledge ourselves again 
and still again that the pain, suffering and sacrifices of 
the past shall not have been in vain; that the heroism, 
honor and patriotism of the race shall not die; that hu- 
manity, Christianity and freedom shall not be crushed 
from the earth by the brutal hand of barbarous Prus- 

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sianism; that free institutions shall not be strickened 
unto death because God has entrusted us with a taxing 
duty; because destiny is giving Americanism the blood 
and fire test. 

And above all let us pledge our God, our posterity, 
our country, our all that this cruel conflict shall not 
place a single stain or blot upon the spotless name of 
America, American womanhood, American manhood, 
American patriotism, and American honor. And when 
the world emerges from the gloom and tragedies of this 
awful war, purged and cleansed of ravenous Prussian 
militarism with all its blighting and damning effects 
upon mankind, and when the scars of this terrible, 
death-dealing struggle are being wiped out by the all- 
liealing hand of time, let America be found extending 
to all mankind the right hand of fellowship, breathing 
the doctrine of the Fatherhood of God and the Brother- 
hood of Man, binding their wounds with bands of jus- 
tice, humanity, hope and inspiration, leaving to God in 
His infinite wisdom to judge them for their deeds. 

Let us return from this war, I say, with one more 
achievement credited to the world's greatest Republic, 
an achievement that will gladden the hearts, thrill the 
souls and make happy the homes of countless millions, 
an achievement for the benefit of mankind, for the up- 
lift of humanity, for the preservation of liberty and the 
perpetuation of democracy. Let our glorious, uncon- 
quered and unconquerable and eternal flag return with 
her baptism of blood consecrated in the cause of human 
justice and dedicated to liberty, freedom and equality 
throughout the world. 



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CHAPTER IX. 
Peace. 

"And he that hath no sword, let him sell his gar- 
ment, and buy one." Jesus — Luke 22:36. 

"Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, 
that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass 
away. Yet if God wills that it continue until all 
the wealth piled by the bondsman's two hundred 
and fifty years of unrequitted toil shall be sunk, 
and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash 
shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as 
was said three thousand years ago, so, still it must 
be said that the judgments of the Lord are true and 
righteous altogether." — Lincoln. 

The question of a just peace and how to secure it 
presents two very important propositions. Proper re- 
gard for the Wilson program compels one to say little 
on these important subjects at this time. It is impos- 
sible, however, to pass the peace subject without sug- 
gestion. The American people are entitled to at least 
some mention as to the far-reaching consequences 
wrapped in this question. I shall confine my observa- 
tions to a mere hint. 

The Allies, at last, have organization, leadership, 
unity and harmony in their fighting forces. The people 
at home are entering into the war with a determined 
spirit to win. They will win the war. The military 
autocracy of Germany is doomed. The end is only a 
matter of time. As the end draws near the world will 
begin to appreciate the terrible cost of this awful 
struggle. 

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At the peace conference two peace plans will con- 
test for supremacy. One of these will be a Wilson 
peace plan, provided he is then President of the United 
States. The other will be a Great Britain peace plan. 
The guiding principle of the Wilson peace plan will be 
a healthy, vigorous and progressive universal brother- 
hood. 

Why are the eyes of the world riveted on Wood- 
row Wilson? 

Why is his every word hurried to the four corners 
of the earth? Why is he the world's greatest character? 
In short, why is he the leading man in the greatest 
drama of all time. Because mankind everywhere 
looks to him as their leader and friend, their hope and 
star of inspiration. And more, because a Wilson peace 
will be a real, effective and determined step toward the 
goal of universal and permanent peace. I say a step 
toward the goal of universal and permanent peace be- 
cause permanent peace is still a dream. The foundation 
for universal and permanent peace has not yet been 
started. 

Peace to be permanent and universal must be 
founded on universal brotherhood. Harmony in ac- 
tion, unity in cause and a recognition of the rights of 
man are the first necessary steps. I do not use the term 
"universal brotherhood" in the weakling, or sentimen- 
tal, or maudlin sense. I apply it here as a great prin- 
ciple whose roots grow deep into the fertile soil of 
strong, healthy, vigorous, penetrating, courageous and 
productive pursuits, occupations and progress, building 
each day from the good to the better and from the bet- 
ter to the best, feeding and developing the best that is 

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in the man and struggling to make this a better world 
in which to live. 

I have often said that there can be no peace on 
earth until the physical has blended and harmonized 
with the spiritual and we have come to have a spiritual 
conception and understanding of life. Then and not 
until then shall the people "beat their swords into 
ploughshares and their spears into pruning hooks; na- 
tion shall not lift a sword against nation, neither shall 
they learn war any more." 

Then "shall all men's good 
Be each man's rule, and universal peace 
Lie like a shaft of light across the land, 
And like a lane of beams across the sea." 
We have reached a state superior to anything be- 
hind us and we are about to realize a new and higher 
summit. This approaching new order will not be in 
the nature of a final goal, nor in that of perfection; it 
will be but a step in the grand march of mankind to the 
goal of universal brotherhood. 

Let no one deceive himself by thinking that the 
present war will be the last great war. It will not be 
the last great war. The end of the present war will see 
the nations of the earth beginning mighty preparations 
for the next war which will be fought over the Asiatic 
question. However, a Wilson peace will save the world 
from a crucifixion on the cross of commercialism. It 
will give the world the first foundation upon which 
universal and permanent peace can be founded. 

The present war cannot and will not settle the 
Armenian question, nor the Balkan question, nor the 
Asiatic question, nor the Irish question. Asia is older 
than Europe, Europe is older than America. Neither 

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Asia nor Europe have solved their social questions, their 
religious questions, their economic and industrial ques- 
tions. It is worthy of notice that the oldest country, 
Asia, has almost reached the point of irremediable de- 
cadence, while the youngest country of the globe, 
America, has reached the highest point of perfection 
ever attained by mankind. 

The world is just beginning to realize that some- 
thing more than mere '^scraps of paper" is necessary to 
weld the peoples of the earth into a reasonably har- 
monious body. 

I am firm in my conviction that if the world fully 
understood that Woodrow Wilson would remain the 
President of the United States for four years after the 
expiration of his present term it would shorten the war 
by a year. Let the world be advised NOW that Wil- 
son is to stay at the helm of the ship of state until his 
mighty trust is landed safe in the harbor of the NEW 
AGE OF AMERICANISM and the people every- 
where will rally to his standard and follow his course. 

"With malice toward none, with charity for all, 
with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the 
right, let us finish the work we are in, to bind up the na- 
tion's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne 
the battle, and for his widow and his orphans, to do all 
which may achieve and cherish a just and a lasting peace 
among ourselves and with all nations." 



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